Neonatal Listeriosis: The Importance of Placenta Histological Examination-A Case Report

• Main Authors: Amarilis Batista Teixeira (Author), Ana Maria Arruda Lana (Author), Joel Alves Lamounier (Author), Orlando Pereira da Silva (Author), Silvana Maria Eloi-Santos (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc., 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Neonatal listeriosis is not a rare disease, but it is infrequently diagnosed and reported in the literature. Herein we report a case of listeria lethal sepsis, followed by increased cytokines levels in the cord blood, in which diagnosis was made possible by histological examination of the placenta.